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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB features a GPU core clock speed of 600 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 112 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which has core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 95 Watts
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB will be a little bit (approximately 19%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 6400 (19%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB will be much (more or less 67%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6400 (67%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Radeon R7 250X 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Oct 2007 February 2014
Code Name G92 Cape Verde XT
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 640
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

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Radeon R7 250X 2GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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